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Newspaper
Topeka State Journal
Location
Topeka, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jul 04, 1896
Page
7
A clipped real estate brief mentions crowd vig near Hania Fe route and Rome roadieena with July 4 chatter. It references a single fare for car and sleeper settings, suggesting round-trip pricing details amid travel chatter.
Railroad news notes loaded trains as Democrats and Christian Endeavorers join national conventions. Oklahoma, Texas, Kansas City and Topeka delegations travel on Santa Fe lines to Chicago and Buffalo. Special trains carry teachers, delegates, and local clubs, with officials accompanying groups.
Special correspondent C Edward operates at Horton round house replacing Mr Hallard as day operator. Percy Griswold moves from shorelap the deal six onthe to pursue business in Dee Monnea. George Nye promoted to fill a vacancy while Trainspatcher J T Terrett takes his annual vacation. Ballard appointed extra train dispatcher eastern division effective July 1. Clarence Prugh leaves Horton to become passenger conductor on the Chicago Aston railway. White visits Horton from Ft Worth and Prugh’s former Horton duties noted with best wishes.
Arkansas City items report layoffs and returns among Santa Fe employees. Engineer S Cook is laid off due to sickness while John Benfang returns after sixty days. Foreman M 42 Drury and Mrs Drury visit the east. trackmen, conductors, and brakemen announce lay offs for Fourth of July celebrations.
Special correspondent reports on Santa Fe Railway workers in Chanute. Machinist W E Humphrey hospitalized in Ottawa with illness. Fireman Thomas Woods recovering from earlier injury. Engineer W J Morehart and family away in Chile for several weeks. Mrs F Miller and sister back from Garnett. Engineer Jacob Weller returns from Raton New Mexico. Patrick Ryan and son visiting St Louis. telegraph operator to Chicago for visit. Eagle John Cont takes charge of engine in Pittsburgh. Receiver C W Smith noted as Atlantic official.
Pacific appoints W H Smith as general purchasing head with Albuquerque HQ. Auditor Young names Harry S Stirling as general freight auditor to replace the late AS Van Huran. LK Polk discussed as likely successor to 5 F Yoakum as Gulf, Colorado Santa Fe general manager. Louis Moon, Santa Fe storehouse employee, fainted from heat but recovered. sent home at 29 Hancock Street expected back soon.
In Topeka a mix of civic, social and minor curiosities unfolds with Fourth of July plans, local appointments, and neighborhood vignettes. Mentions include McKinley and Hobart druggists, George Washington at the city prison, charity cases, a horse show, and a new Santa Fe hospital discussing visitor hours.
The county examining board and probate judge inspected Treasurer Stahl's books and found them correct. A Santa Fe office fire destroyed two awnings from a tossed match. Kansas avenue residents narrowly escaped harm amid bicycles and rocker sticks. College Hill boys plan a bonfire with a brush stack guarded by a tent overnight. An errant bomb under an old man’s chair triggers a April Fool quip about two holidays. City printing is up for bid. brass collar politics clash with the State Journal and Capital paper.
Denver July 4 Senator Teller disputes reports he wrote Governor Altgeld to block his name at the Democratic convention He says he has not altered his stance since St Louis and would accept nomination only if delegates deem it best He praises Chicago delegates as patriotic and confident they will uphold independence and integrity against “gold power” influence.
Rev Lydia Chase of Kansas City will preach at Friends church Sunday at 11 a m and 2 pm Paul Rathborn infant died of cholera at 622 Kansas avenue funeral tomorrow at residence At Kansas Avenue Methodist church pastor will preach tomorrow at 10 30 am on The Central Ide of the Christian Religion and at 7 pm on The Greatest Question Before the American Nation W 3 Randolph a colored barber was arrested by constable from Grover's court on a charge of frightening women Susie Clemens visiting Mrs John Maxwell Miss Celia Smock of Indianapolis in town for several years in social work Lincoln Street area shaken by a storm Ashting struck near Linocets Port hall corner of Sixth and Quincy streets residents felt the shock Lizzie Richardson a colored girl jailed after trouble with Logen Duntis a colored character Justice Grover to hear case The girl had Logen arrested last week for assault and sought revenge meanwhile
The Democratic Flambeaux club led by Gormiey’s band plans a 6 o’clock departure Sunday on Union Pacific for Chicago to attend the Democratic National Convention. The group will stop in Kansas en route and will meet the Kansas City Bland club also bound for Chicago on the same train. A public display in Chicago is slated for Monday with a display worth about $1,000 of fireworks, and the club will wear white hats as a symbol of the cause.
Fort Scott. July 4. Sudee W. R. Biddle, a leading eastern Kansas politician, declares he and all free citizens will vote for a broad minded American if the Democratic nominee is suitable. He bolts from the St Louis and Pacific party and opposes the gold plank.
A reported release of an individual named Browneled led to a chaotic scene downtown as medical staff secured a child in a club room. Pinkston arrested the man and he was held at the city prison while a court hearing was postponed. Officers confiscated valuables during the incident. The event ends with the suspect left in custody and street tensions lingering.
The Topeka city council met to read minutes, consider accounts, and approve the journal. Reports from appraisers on street work were adopted, ordinances discussed, and various street improvements authorized including a Charleston plan for Fifteenth Street. A note announced the death of James Clark Foye, educator at Armour Institute, from heat stroke.
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